Michael Moynihan: Who remembers Burgerland and Mandy's and Mahon before the point?

A picture of a fast-food joint in Cork City in 1984 is like a portal back in time and should inspire us all to preserve images of the city as we know it right now. So get that smartphone out and get snapping

Burgerland in Cork City in 1984: The non-ironic pullovers and padded anoraks, the haircuts — the haircuts! — and the man working his way through a cigarette at one of the tables.

It’s a picture that tells a hundred stories. A thousand might have frightened the fire officer.

It’s a photograph of Burgerland, the long-vanished fast food outlet in , and shows all tables occupied on a random day in 1984.